NGC 4565 - needles in the haystack (Tom Gray)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: HD109627 · IC 3533 · IC 3536 · IC 3543 · IC 3546 · IC 3571 · IC 3582 · NGC 4555 · NGC 4562 · NGC 4565 · Needle Galaxy

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NGC 4565 the spindle or needle galaxy is enormous 'island universe' round 100,000 LY in diameter, and ~40 million LY from my 183C sensor in the Coma 1 galaxy cloud...one of the brighter needles in this particular haystack. It has a bulging central core with a bright nucleus, dark bisecting dust lane, and a hint of younger star formation in the outer arms - see my previous image at longer FL.

The plethora of faint background galaxies make this an enjoyable image, but please don't look any closer then the 'plate-solve' (mouseover) as you will be sorely disappointed. Imaged under a high haze, I am trying to make the most of what remaining darkness we have as spring retreats into summer. Calibrated in Nebulosity and processed in Cyril Richard's excellent 'Siril 1.2 beta2' this is a full frame, unbinned image, with a little cropping to remove stacking artifacts.

Summer is a time to stand back and enjoy the wonderful starry vistas of our own, not dissimilar, Milky Way galaxy.

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RA (center)	12h36m30s.53
RA (top/left)	12h37m52s.22
RA (top/right)	12h38m54s.19
RA (bottom/right)	12h35m07s.76
RA (bottom/left)	12h34m08s.28

Dec (center)	+25°58′29″.4
Dec (top/left)	+25°15′55″.1
Dec (top/right)	+26°32′00″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+26°41′06″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+25°24′56″.4

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